You're a fool if you don't realize this is going to be the reactionary's century, perhaps their thousand-year reign. It's the one ...thing Hitler said which wasn't completely hysterical.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to succeed. No, I saw lov...e as reward. One could find it only after one's virtue, or one's courage, or self-sacrifice, or generosity, or loss, has succeeded in stirring the power of creation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift i...nto the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a li...ttle bit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and l...ess important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today.... We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art, camp, a theater of the ...absurd.... Do we have the art because the absurd is the patina of waste...? Or are we face to face with a desperate or most rational effort from the deepest resources of the unconscious of us all to rescue civilization from the pit and plague of its bedding?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are close to dead. There are faces and bodies like gorged maggots on the dance floor, on the highway, in the city, in the stadi...um; they are a host of chemical machines who swallow the product of chemical factories, aspirin, preservatives, stimulant, relaxant, and breathe out their chemical wastes into a polluted air. The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One fee...ls one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness--the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »